How to format your references using the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

B. Derby, Printing and prototyping of tissues and scaffolds, Science. 338 (2012) 921–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Engdahl, B. Nelander, The vibrational spectrum of H2O3, Science. 295 (2002) 482–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.-Y. Lee, K.J. Robinson, C.Q. Doe, Lgl, Pins and aPKC regulate neuroblast self-renewal versus differentiation, Nature. 439 (2006) 594–598.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Pei, H. Zhang, J. Su, Z. Cui, Ductile gap between the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes revealed from the two-dimensional Pg seismic tomography, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6489.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

K. Sattler, Thermische Trennverfahren, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Elmoataz, O. Lezoray, F. Nouboud, D. Mammass, J. Meunier, eds., Image and Signal Processing: 4th International Conference, ICISP 2010, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, June 30-July 2, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Yang, M. Pei, Y. Wu, B. Ma, Y. Jia, Online-Learning Structural Appearance Model for Robust Visual Tracking, in: C. Sun, F. Fang, Z.-H. Zhou, W. Yang, Z.-Y. Liu (Eds.), Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering: 4th International Conference, IScIDE 2013, Beijing, China, July 31 – August 2, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 30–39.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Chimpanzees Craft “Dipping Sticks” To Drink Hard To Reach Water, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimpanzees-craft-dipping-sticks-to-drink-hard-to-reach-water/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NASA: Enhanced Use Leasing Program Needs Additional Controls, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.D. Williams, Playing the Hungarian card: An assessment of radical right impact on Slovak and Hungarian party systems and post-Communist democratic stability, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2013.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

J. Williams, An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma, New York Times. (2017) C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Colloid And Interface Science
Abbreviation	J. Colloid Interface Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9797
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films